Hawass has no business being back in charge (de facto, not in title). Turning the entire country into a fascist version of Disneyland -- but staffed with freelance panhandlers instead of cartoon characters -- won't bring back tourism.
I’ve noticed over the years your animus towards Hawass, and I agree that his ego is enormous and he probably controls much of the research and information coming out of Egypt over the past few decades.
But once you get past that, if you can, I’d argue that he has publicized Egyptology so much, he has increased the public interest in Egypt tenfold what it was before he stepped forward. Egypt truly became a tourist destination again instead of a often-overlooked dusty backwater.
Perhaps this is coincidental and would have happened anyway, but to give the devil his due, it began on his watch. Whoever heard of a Director of Egyptology before Hawass? Name one.